6 Essential iPhone X Tips & Tricks You Need To Know Right Now

The iPhone X has removed the home button and that changes a lot of things. Although the home button is gone, we still need to know how things work on the new smartphone. Apple has changed a lot of gestures that were used to control the iPhone.

If you've ever owned an iPhone, you will face a few difficulties adjusting to the new iPhone X. There are different gestures for different types of actions and we want to make your lives easier.

How to take a Screenshot

Earlier, you would press the home button and the lock screen button at the same time to take a screenshot. However, since the home button has been removed, there is a new way to take a screenshot of your display. It's still easy as you just need to press the side button and the volume up button at the same time. Here's how it looks:

You can no longer press the home button to go back to the home screen, so how do you do it? Apple has made it a bit intuitive as you just need to swipe up from the bottom of the display. It will be easier to get accustomed to this gesture as it is located in the same spot as the home button. Here's how you need to do it:

This is by far the most annoying thing on the iPhone X. If you want to close a buggy app or restart an application, you need to learn the new gesture in order to quit the app. It is a three-step process (which makes it annoying) and is somewhat similar to the new home screen method. You need to swipe up from the bottom of the screen and hold your finger for an extra second. This will launch the app switcher and from there you need to long hold on the list of apps. Once you see the minus icon, you can now close the app. Here's how you need to do it:

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How to Activate Siri

You can always say “Hey Siri” to launch the virtual assistant but there is an additional way to launch it on the iPhone X. The lock screen button is elongated for a reason as all you need to do is long press the button. This will instantaneously launch Siri and you can go about asking questions. Here's how it's done.

You may have seen our Facebook live session the other day and we showed you things have changed on the iPhone X. Previous iPhones let you swipe up to access the Control Centre which is not the same way to launch it on the iPhone X.

To launch the Control Center, just swipe down from the top right corner of the screen. The Notification Centre is also launched in a similar fashion as you need to swipe from the top left of the screen. Here's how you access the two shortcuts:

You will always have prying eyes around you and you need to know how you can quickly disable Face ID. This will come most handy when someone is trying to take your smartphone and will try to unlock it by pointing it to your face.

To quickly disable Face ID, just press down all three physical buttons (the volume buttons and the side button) at the same time.